Letter: What's Franken done the past 6 years?

Letter: What's Franken done the past 6 years?

Sen. Al Franken is alive and well and on TV and in the newspaper saving America.

But where has he been, and what has he done the last six years?

As you may recall, he was elected in a recount. Going to bed on election night, we had elected a Minnesota native with experience by some 700 votes. However, after finding uncounted ballots, Franken won.

Franken brought his experience as a foul-mouthed comedian from California to the Senate to represent his Minnesota constituents. His election victory gave President Obama and the Democrats a majority in Congress to push their socialistic agenda on the American people.

As a result, we have a $17 trillion-plus debt our grandchildren will be paying off and a very weak economy, which grew by just 0.1 percent in the first quarter of 2014.

As Dan McLaughlin at www.redstate.com said in a blog post, "Vulnerable Senate Democrats want desperately to distance themselves from an unpopular president and cast themselves as independent voices, not partisan rubber stamps." The blog also cites a Congressional Quarterly report that claims 70 percent of Senate votes in 2013 were along party lines and that the Democrats' voted unanimously 52 percent of the time — a record high for either party.

The blog post also states that Harry Reid, majority leader since 2007, "has strangled the amendment process and used the 'nuclear option' that Reid once denounced to bulldoze the minority's traditional weapons for holding up nominations."

Franken went along for the ride, which resulted in the largest gap between the rich and the poor and a diminished middle class. However, it's good he is concentrating on what is most important — changing the names of sport teams that may offend a small minority.